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or Lose Weight, How to Burn Energy by Exercise PLUS
Advice and Guidelines on Calorie Intake For Children and Teens, Calorie-Counting
When Dieting, PLUS Best Aerobic Exercise
For Calorie-Burning and Weight Loss, PLUS
How to Raise Metabolism/Metabolic Rate PLUS
Guide to Diet Kilocalories, Calorie Equation, Energy-Intake/Expenditure,
Calorie-Content of Foods

Calories in Fats/Sugars

ENERGY BALANCE

The food and drink we consume in our daily
diet provides the energy and nutrients we need to stay healthy and energetic.
Our personal calorie needs vary according to our weight, age, gender and
activity level, but "on average" women need about 2000 calories
a day to maintain their energy balance and keep their weight stable. Men
need about 2500 a day. The energy content of stored body fat is about
3500 calories, so a 500 calorie deficit is needed each day in order to
lose one pound. The safest way to create an energy deficit is by reducing
calorie intake and at the same time increasing energy expenditure.

Calories in Junk Food

SLOWER METABOLIC RATE

We all know people who seem to be able
to eat as many food calories as they like without gaining weight. However,
clinical studies show that although a higher metabolic rate does allow
people to eat more without gaining weight, slender people typically inherit
a lower metabolic rate than obese people, and thus burn fewer calories
while at rest. According to the latest theory, leaner people are believed
to be more "spontaneously active" than obese individuals and
have greater "non-exercise activity thermogenesis". In simple
terms, they twitch, or move around, or fidget more than overweight people,
and this helps to burn extra calories.

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Calorie Control and
Genes

The amount of food energy we consume, how
we metabolize it into glucose and then distribute it to cells/muscles
as energy or store it as body fat, is regulated by a large number of hormones,
enzymes, and other biochemical agents. Thus it seems obvious that the
significant calorie surplus needed for obesity must be influenced by DNA
and other genetic factors. Even so, as genes only change over millennia,
they cannot be responsible for the huge increase in obesity over the past
two decades. One common myth is that obese subjects have slower metabolisms.
However, clinical studies show clearly that obese people do not have slower
metabolisms. Research shows that obese patients typically have a faster
metabolic rate than lighter people.

Calories in Drinks

Calories - Eating Out

CALORIE TIP

Food eaten late at night may cause indigestion,
but it doesn't lead to greater fat gain than the same number of calories
eaten earlier in the day. It's the total amount of kilocalories that count,
not when they are consumed.

Calories - Meals

CALORIE DEFICIT

The most effective way to create the necessary
calorie deficit to lose weight, is to choose lower calorie foods and take
regular calorie-burning exercise. Good low calorie food includes fiber-rich
foods (to fill your stomach); the best type of exercise to burn energy
is aerobic exercise, although strength training is also useful to increase
muscle mass thus raising your metabolism.

ENERGY SURPLUS

While obesity remains a complex condition,
experts cite overeating and lack of physical exercise as the two main
causes for the current overweight epidemic. In short, the calorie content
of our food serving sizes is too high and our energy expenditure is too
low. This leads to a surplus of energy and increased fat storage.

How Not To Burn Calories

Weight gain or weight loss is determined
by the "calorie equation." If your calorie intake exceeds your
calorie-expenditure, you create an energy surplus which is stored as body
fat and you gain weight. If your energy intake is less than your energy
expenditure, you create a calorie deficit and you lose weight. If your
calorie intake equals calorie-expenditure, your weight remains the same.
However, if we reduce our energy intake too much, our body thinks there
is a food shortage and starts to slow down our metabolic rate in order
to burn fewer calories. In addition, lack of calories can lead to a lack
of vitamins and minerals - some of which help to regulate our weight as
well as our health. All this is why very-low-energy diets should only
be followed under medical supervision. However, if we reduce our energy
intake too much, our body thinks there is a food shortage and starts to
slow down our metabolic rate in order to burn fewer calories.

Weight Loss Information

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